From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Tue Feb 03 18:47:12 2009
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>What's strange is the tone we like was not Don's idea of good tone. Well Leo Fender was about to drop production on the Strat. Thought the Jazzmaster was superior. Sometimes the genius is too close to his work..

No, it's simpler than that. Don Leslie was trying to perfectly duplicate the sound of the tremolo on a theater pipe organ. I like the sound of a 31H, 122, or 145 -- but I doubt that any of them would pass a blindfolded test with a pipe organ with tremulant. Now a Rotosonic drum IS much closer.

What we all have to remember is that Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie were NOT Jim Marshall, or Tom Jennings and Dick Denny. They weren't trying to create a jazz, blues, or rock instrument. They were trying to create the sound of a PIPE ORGAN. To that yardstick, the Hammond and Leslie do fail a bit.

Regards,

-BW
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Bruce Wahler
AshbySolutions.com™
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